We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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